[SPARCbook] Script file

[Thierry Besancon]

Dixit "Meer Ahmed" <sunsolaris80 at hotmail.com> (le Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:07:31 -0500) :

 Hi Bob,
 
 Does Solaris 8 (kernel 5.8) supports this:
 
 kill -TERM 'cat /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid'

Well, written this way, certainly not and the shell will be the first
to refuse your command. Write it this way :

        kill -TERM `cat /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid`

Keep in mind what is kernelland stuff and what is userland
stuff...



 As I have to use this in one of my script file, I tried using this
 under my shell prompt it gave me following error: 
  
 kill: invalid id

Well, are you sure your pid file is uptodate with the running process ? 

You might use 

        /usr/bin/pkill -x -u 0 '(httpd)'

like what is done in all the Solaris rc files...


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        Thierry BESANCON